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Sanral & "Suicide Lane" Rider

Quiet an allegation if it is true. According to Justice Project South Africa (@JPSAorg) biker was rammed into barriers last week Friday. Anyone know of the incident. Evidently another biker into the barriers on the N1 last night, similar allegation.

After reading Justice Projects further tweets I am wondering why the biker was in the suicide lane? Friday evening the highway isn't that busy. Also, according to JP the car came all the way across the highway to hit the biker, so not much traffic at all.

Law enforcement on national roads
54. (1) The Agency may authorise any of its employees to take steps on a national road or any other property of the Agency, in the manner and on the conditions as prescribed, with a view to preventing any offences created by this Act, any other contraventions thereof and any offences in terms of the road traffic and the road safety laws being committed on the national road or other property.
(2) Such an authorised employee will have the powers of arrest and detention conferred on a peace officer in terms of Chapter 5 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 51 of 1977), with regard to any person who, on a national road or the property mentioned in subsection (1), has committed any offence referred to in that subsection in the presence of the authorised employee or who is suspected by the authorised employee, on reasonable grounds, so to have committed such an offence.
(3) Despite subsections (1) and (2), the Agency may enter into an agreement with— (a) any municipality, in terms of which the municipality is authorised, and undertakes, to perform the law enforcement functions mentioned in subsections (1) and (2), on a national road within the municipal area, through employees of the municipality designated or appointed by it for that purpose; (b) the Premier of any province, in terms of which the province is authorised and undertakes to perform those law enforcement functions on the national roads in the province, or any of those national roads as specified in the agreement, through employees of the province designated or appointed by the province for that purpose.

After reading Justice Projects further tweets I am wondering why the biker was in the suicide lane? Friday evening the highway isn't that busy. Also, according to JP the car came all the way across the highway to hit the biker, so not much traffic at all.

???

Sadly it is becoming the norm, traffic or no traffic. the new thing I have noticed are bikers using the SL to overtake vehicles and then move back into the lane.

we try to tell bikers not to ride in the SL ,because this type of thing could happen

so now it happened and we feeling sorry for the biker? and want get revenge ..
but if he rode in the correct lane like most of us , this wouldn't have happened.

what about us who ride correctly and when these guys fly past on the SL the cars move into our path
and they not doing 80kmph it's more like 120 kmph with very little space for mistakes.

btw even if the sanrail bakkie was at fault ... the biker is actually at fault
similar to riding without a licence etc
if you have an accident and it was the other person fault but you don't have a license . you are at fault

anyways hope the biker is okay
perhaps more bikers will start lane splitting

Sadly people don't learn and most bikers will probably not see this, either here or on social media, iof they do, all they will see or take from it is that a SANRAL driver was reckless and this wouldn't happen to them.

we try to tell bikers not to ride in the SL ,because this type of thing could happen

so now it happened and we feeling sorry for the biker? and want get revenge ..
but if he rode in the correct lane like most of us , this wouldn't have happened.

what about us who ride correctly and when these guys fly past on the SL the cars move into our path
and they not doing 80kmph it's more like 120 kmph with very little space for mistakes.

btw even if the sanrail bakkie was at fault ... the biker is actually at fault
similar to riding without a licence etc
if you have an accident and it was the other person fault but you don't have a license . you are at fault

anyways hope the biker is okay
perhaps more bikers will start lane splitting

If what Sanral says is true, it would have happened to this rider anyway. Accident ahead. Sanral vehicle with siren and lights slowing down traffic and closing lanes. He tries to slip past and is stopped.

Anyone who has ever marshalled will understand the problem of vehicles refusing to adhere to indications from a marshal, traffic cop, SAPS member, etc.

If what Sanral says is true, it would have happened to this rider anyway. Accident ahead. Sanral vehicle with siren and lights slowing down traffic and closing lanes. He tries to slip past and is stopped.

Anyone who has ever marshalled will understand the problem of vehicles refusing to adhere to indications from a marshal, traffic cop, SAPS member, etc.